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  1. Alannah Joy Currie (born 20 September 1957) is a New Zealand artist based in London. She is a musician and activist, best known as a former member of the pop band Thompson Twins. Career. Born in New Zealand and trained as a journalist, Currie emigrated to the UK in 1977. Currie squatted in South London.

    • Thompson Twins
    • Anti GM Movement
    • Armchair Destructivists and Sisters of Perpetual Resistance
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    In 1981 Alannah joined with squat neighbours Tom Bailey and Joe Leeway and together they became the internationally successful pop band the Thompson Twins. She co-wrote the songs, performed, recorded, styled and visually directed the band for 15 years – working with many pop giants including Debbie Harry, Nile Rodgers, Grace Jones, Alex Sadkin and ...

    In 2001 Currie founded and ran the notorious anti-Genetic Modification movement in NZ called MAdGE working alongside Greenpeace to organise protests, marches and mobilising women in supermarket boycotts. In order to provoke an ethical debate on the use of human genes in milk-producing cows she designed a highly controversial billboard campaign titl...

    In 2004 Currie moved back to London and spent 2 years at London Metropolitan University learning traditional furniture production. She took the name Miss Pokeno and began the slow process of myth-making, building taxidermy into chairs to tell the stories of her imagined ancestors, leading to her first solo show England Bloody England at the Ragged ...

    Alannah Currie is a London based artist who makes work using luxurious veneers around uncomfortable and provocative narratives. She was a member of the Thompson Twins, founded the anti-GM movement MAdGE, and created the Sisters of Perpetual Resistance.

  2. 29. März 2023 · Alannah Currie interview: “For a couple of years the three of us had a real laugh”. By Classic Pop | March 29, 2023. Alannah Currie in LA. In this archive interview from 2017, Thompson Twins’ Alannah Currie remembers the band’s early days…. By Jenny Valentish.

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  3. Alannah Currie is a New Zealand-born musician and actress who was a member of the Thompson Twins. She has also appeared in films such as Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, 10 Things I Hate About You and Sixteen Candles.

    • Actress, Composer, Producer
    • September 20, 1958
    • Alannah Currie
  4. The former Thompson Twin singer and New Zealand resident reveals her surreal furniture art show in London. She uses dead animals to challenge the notion of comfort and confront the audience with the cost of relaxation.

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  5. 23. Sept. 2020 · Auffälliges Persönchen diese Alannah Currie. Zumindest in den Achtzigern, als sie den Thompson Twins angehörte und dort als Co-Sängerin fungierte und die Percussions bediente. Außerdem spielte die Neuseeländerin in visueller Hinsicht eine ziemlich große Rolle. Sie wurde 63 Jahre alt (*20 September 1957). 1977 gegründet.

  6. Alannah Currie in Classic Pop - Jenny Valentish. I was very happy to be able to write this Classic Pop profile of Alannah Currie: artist, activist, ex-pop star. Her childhood in New Zealand with an illegal bookie father sounds like a scene from The Grifters.